"Eeyore" wrote in message
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Arfa Daily wrote:

"Jan Panteltje" wrote

They are suing somebody for a youtube (or the like) clip, person had
thier
toddler dancing to music from Prince playing on a TV in the background.

Hollywood has gone nuts, probably full of rabits too.


Even given the current copyright laws, I would think that any chance of
successfully prosecuting a ludicrously ridiculous case such as you cite,
is
slim to zero ...

Jan's got the story back to front. He seems to get everything back to
front in
fact.


Youtube video:Mother to Sue

A mother is suing Universal Music Publishing Group for insisting a video
of her
toddler dancing to music by pop star Prince be yanked from YouTube on
copyright
violation grounds.

Electronic Frontier Foundation lawyers said they filed a lawsuit yesterday
asking a San Francisco federal court to protect the woman's fair use and
free
speech rights.
http://prince.org/msg/7/236123?jump=9&pg=1

Graham

Yep, sounds like a lawyer-driven test case to me. As soon as I see the words
"fair", "free" and "speech", and "rights" in a sentence that also contains
the word "lawyer", I'm immediately thinking that way ...

Arfa